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2020 NFL Draft: Assessing Jalen Reagor's draft position

By Eric Eager
Apr 14, 2020

The 2020 NFL Draft is just over a week away, and with the NFL season (at least) five months away, there’s not a whole lot to wager on (unless you’re into Madden sims, which no one is. Ok, maybe some people are).

At this point, a lot of value has been sucked out of the market for some of the marquee players like Henry Ruggs III and Isaiah Simmons. But for whatever reason, there is still some value in players who are a little more “under the radar.” One of those players is Jalen Reagor of TCU.

Reagor is one of the more interesting prospects in the entire draft. In fact, our athleticism metric, which combines various combine metrics using principal component analysis and forecasts how this combination of new variables projects to PFF grades at the NFL level, has never given a receiver a better grade than it gave Reagor, and that includes Ruggs.

While Reagor was not very productive in 2019, catching fewer than 50% of his targets and generating just over 600 yards (with less than 150 yards after the catch), he dealt with some pretty poor play at the quarterback position and saw an unreal amount of uncatchable targets. He did drop seven of his 88 targets, which is a bit concerning. He also avoided only five tackles on his catches in 2019, down from 11 in 2018.